Tubular shot-carton.



G. H. STEVENSON.

TUBULAR SHOT CARTON.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 2. 1913.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

THE NORRIS PETERS 07.. PHOIOJJTHZ, WASHINGTON, D. l

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. STEVENSON, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

TUBULAR SHOT-CARTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

Application filed october 2, 1913. Serial No. 792,936.

ters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this application, and represent, in

Figure l, a view in side elevation of a tubular shot-carton constructed in accordance with my invention, with its split annular gate in its open position. Fig. 2, a view thereof in central longitudinalsection on the line a-b, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, a broken view of the carton in side elevation with its gate in its closed position. Fig. 4, a detached plan view of the gate.

My invention relates to an improvement in tubular shot-cartons, the object being to produce a simple, convenient and reliable tubular carton constructed with particular reference to low cost of production.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a tubular shot-carton having cer tain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a split annular gate in the form of a resilient wlrering, 2, split to form a shot-opening 3, and adapted to be sufliciently sprung to be passed over a paper tube 1 which is formed for the reception of the said ring 2 with a seat consisting of a circumferential groove 5 inwhich the ring seats itself against lateral movement but with a capacity for being rotated with respect to the longitudinal axis of the tube.

discharges its function of confining the shot in the carton, it still permitsthe. shot to be seen through the feeding-opening. The tube itself may in other. respects be of any suitable construction. As herein shown, its ends are crimped inward asat 8 for the retention shot-opening 3 out of registration with the feeding-opening 6 as shown in Fig. 3, whereby none of the shot 7 are allowed to escape through the said feeding-opening. On the other hand, when it is desired to remove the shot, the gate is rotated until its shotopening 3 is brought into registration with the opening 6, after which the shot may be poured out of the carton in a single stream.

in place of wads 9 whichclose its ends. The gate 2 is normally turned so as to carry its My improved tubular shot-carton may be produced at a very low cost, since it is merely necessary to form its paper tube with a circumferential seat for the reception of the gate which, being resilient andsplit, has only to be sprung over one end of. the tube and slid thereupon until it reaches its seat when it snaps thereinto and hugs the bottom thereof with a suiiicient grip to hold it against turning except when it is manually turned for the registration of its shot-opening with the feeding-opening in the carton.

I claimi .As a new article of manufacture, a tubular paper shot-carton comprising a. paper cylinder having rounded, rimless ends and formed near one end with a depressed circumferential seat having a feeding-opening located in its bottom, a rotatable annular gate located in the said seat and formed with a shot-opening co-acting with the said feed- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. O. 

